GUIDE QUESTIONS
What is the plot of the short story?
How is the story structured?
What essay topics - check the list at the end of the poetry anthology - could you use this story for?
Comment on the narrative voice
How is childhood presented in this story?
- What does the narrator learn in this story?
- Can you think of any poems we've studied where a child learns?
How is the setting of the story presented?
- Contrast the setting of the story with the emotional state of the narrator and with notion of Araby
Is there a moment of intense insight and self knowledge? Where in the story does this take place?
Comment on the writing techniques Joyce uses to tell the story
Compare or contrast the presentation of childhood with a poem we've studied
Compare or contrast the presentation of settings with a poem we've studied
CLASS TASK
Identify three extracts from the short story - betwen one and three paragraphs long, that contain the relevant textual evidence for writing paragraphs
CLASS TASK
Identify good quotations:
- quotations that support the point you are making in your topic sentence
- quotations that contain at least two identifiable language and or literary techniques
- quotations that can be used as evidence for more than one point
CLASS TASK
In pairs write two comparative paragraphs using this story and a poem on setting and childhood
Click here for a link to a comparative paragraph example.
Click here for a link to a comparative paragraph template.
